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#94: Patrick Radden Keefe, author and New Yorker staff writer

Always Take Notes

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How I Found an Agent and Writed a Proposal

Patrick O'Neal: I didn't know anything about how you got a book contract. He looked in acknowledgments and figured out that generally in nonfiction books, people thank their agents. "I was writing for persuading people to talk to me," he says of his work on government eavesdropping. 'It's funny if, if getting the book contract and the agent seemed easy, doing that book was incredibly hard'

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